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Super Bowl lies
And the rest are living lives of quiet desperation. And frustration.— January 28, 2015 6:52 p.m.
Where the football fanatics live
How do the cities stack up with respect to the "American Sniper" movie? Ain't statistics grand?— January 28, 2015 6:47 p.m.
San Diego Opera happy
Well, Don, you got me there. We really can't afford operas, much less dining sumptuously. But I suppose u can tell that my first was the Grand Ole Opry in about 1946. I remember Ernest Tubb (I'm Walkin' the Floor Over You) and Minnie Pearl. I'm such a Luddite that I booed when the Symphony played some gol' durned, infernal atonal piece while everybody else was giving them a standing ovation. But I will give you this--when 130 or so instruments are playing almost anything TOGETHER, I am stirred--even by Wagner. Otherwise, I'm a hopeless Romantic.— January 28, 2015 6:42 p.m.
San Diego Opera happy
The range of your knowledge comes close to matching the power of your intellect, far exceeding mine. I guess it takes real taste to appreciate Wagner. With respect to die Deutchlanders, Korngold appeals to me more. I believe Wagner is over-worshiped. But, ears of tin and all that I guess.— January 28, 2015 10:52 a.m.
San Diego Opera happy
The Reader could have run ANY pic but that one. It can't help. Anna Netrebko or Angela Gregoriou, maybe, but not the image of a fat lady screaming with horns on her head, the "iconic" image of opera to the commoners. Funny? Yes. Well placed? No. Not if you want to suffer the little commoners to come. Wagner, no--Puccini, si! Down with snobbery. Especially the worst kind where moneyed klutzes and schlemiels put on airs and indulge in all kinds of sympathetic magic--to no avail.— January 28, 2015 12:07 a.m.
A lesson in racism?
Don, you are showing exemplary reasoning, and I'm proud of you for sticking to the need for specific and comprehensive, complete evidence and taking the inevitable heat for it.— January 27, 2015 11:24 p.m.
A lesson in racism?
Crimes and torts committed by individuals should not be financed by the taxpayers. Legislation?— January 27, 2015 11:20 p.m.
A lesson in racism?
In case you are not aware, "smart pills" is derived from a "racist" joke. Ironic? Race is an invented concept based on weak "science." At best, it is a cultural concept, unrelated to reality. Why we persist in using the term is only a confession of our ignorant intransigence and preference for fantasy over reality. We were all black in the beginning, an adaptation to tropical sun and longer days year 'round. When we migrated toward the poles, we lightened up to permit more sun absorption for vitamin D production to prevent rickets, which caused death in childbirth. That's evolution.— January 27, 2015 11:13 p.m.
Public relations — er, utilities commission chief speaks
Guilty! And I'd do it again . . . Every girl needs a brother upon whom to lay the blame. Anyway, your evidence is heresay. Or is it heresy?— January 27, 2015 10:47 p.m.
Public relations — er, utilities commission chief speaks
"The trouble with this statement is that Picker had to make it; it was softly and sometimes euphemistically worded." Even a three-year-old knows that denial only goes so far when you've been caught several times with his hand in the cookie-jar.— January 16, 2015 2:04 p.m.